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Funeral home cut off man's legs

Posted by Epicharis • 7/14/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: yuk

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8150842.stm

"A judge in the US state of South Carolina has ordered the closure of a funeral home where an employee cut off the legs of a 6ft 7in (2m) body.

The worker used an electric saw to sever James Hines's legs at the calf to make his body fit the coffin in 2004."

I am so close to writing off the human race...

User Comments

7/14/09

trailofpen

That is horrible. I'm sure he could have just bent his knees or something. Can you imagine the image? He probably looked like Dorf from the "Dorf Goes Fishing" videos.

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7/14/09

alainaashleycooper

why couldn't they get a bigger coffin, anything to make money these days!

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7/14/09

Deray28

What a horrible thing to do! I'm glad they closed the place! Now, THAT is a good reason to sue someone.

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7/14/09

Agit8r

This is icky, but in the grand scheme of things, I'm rather ambivalent about this... comparing it to say willfully killing people by shipping tainted peanut butter, or the police executing suspects in the street... *shrugs*

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1. 7/14/09
  
  Deray28
  
  Tainted peanut butter? I missed that thread! Is it still active?
2. 7/14/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  um, let me check..
  
  here's a quick google search:
  
  www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tainted+peanut+butter+deaths&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
3. 7/14/09
  
  Deray28
  
  I knew about the Salmonella outbreak in peanut butter but I thought you were referring to someone sending peanut butter knowing it was tainted. Sorry. It still sucks, I know.
4. 7/14/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  they did.
  
  they knew it was salmonella tainted, and shipped it anyway.
  
  www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/28/salmonella.outbreak/index.html
  
  Murder 1, in my book
5. 7/14/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  Thread killer. Thread, Thread KILLAH!
7/14/09

melindaville

Jee-Zus.

Ain't life interesting? Perhaps too much so.

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